The Iran War: Enter Sting Interceptors || Mar. 16, 2026
Defenses in the Persian Gulf are collapsing as Iran continues large drone attacks, but there's a country that already has the answer. Enter Ukraine's Sting interceptor.
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Good reporting as usual. Please keep it up.🔥
They are already buying them https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-saudi-arabia-prepping-huge-deal-for-ukrainian-weapons-amid-iran-threat/
I love that Peter and his people correct mistakes (like the Brave One). I wish our government could admit mistakes and learn from them. But I know that is an unrealistic wish.
Great news! The art of war is progressing at an astounding pace! The rest of humanity's necessities? Not so much.
Peter how exactly do you know what the level of interceptor are remaining for us and allies? Are you sharing intelligence data that was leaked or provided to you officially?
Would be nice to see a huge influx of middle east cash into Ukraine. Nobody is more deserving!
Well, now the US Navy is pinned down, If Xi is ever going to pull the Taiwan trigger…
#Kakistocracy
Love that the transcript converts "Shaheed" to "shithead"
Wasn’t the request from from Allies just a test, he knew no one was going to help open the strait up. Now he can “tax” everything leaving the strait. Does this not perfectly lead into the deglobalization thesis. American navy is no longer a global tragedy of the commons.
In war, technical innovations in weaponry, defense, and R&D become hyperaccelerated. That means that autonomous AI use in warfare will become increasingly more weaponized as human-backed targeting becomes less effective. Just what we need for a safer world.
It’s Kyiv, Peter Thank you for attention you our cause
Cool!
Trump "We don't need help from Zielinski!" Oops, Cheeto opened his mouth again.
Also Trump and Shay D Vance, “You don’t have the cards, Mr. Zelenskyy,” they said condescendingly. So looks like Zelenskyy is taking their cards away from them.
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The Iranians must have watched boxing in the last century, they're playing "Rope-A-Dope"...
Something positive from this mess Trump started. I would love to see the oil countries flood Ukraine with money. More money for Ukraine equals better chance to stop Russia.
Optimism is the doctrine that things will improve despite no evidence. Personally, I would never.
Pretty clear to the entire world that the Emperor's new clothes indeed don't exist and the US administration is marching down the street naked.
Um. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_system
A Stinger costs at least 10X of a Sting, and that's before setting up expanded mass production.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1rs2sqb/a_ukrainian_uav_operator_was_able_to_destroy_two/
And this was the idiot that bailed out on the Iran Nuclear Agreement on his first term for no reason given. What an idiot we have. How are we going to bail out of this mess is the question and not even discussing how much more to the debt this will add?
Ukraine can do a drone update in 48 hours, we take 5 to 10 years. Greasy Pete and Deranged Trump can't realize the change in warfare that's happened in the last few years. Big and expensive gold plated Maginot Line hardware DMS. Separately what are the chances that dollar based economies such as Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh tank because of oil prices ? If they default on loans major banks will be doing huge write-offs.
You may not have ever enjoyed enough credit to learn that loans can be restructured when a bank thinks your loans aren't hopeless.
I hope someone in every Senate office subscribes to this. Wish I could forward to mine. 7 days is a lot of lifetimes .
You can forward them a week or so later
I wonder how much of our war plans were released to the Russian by Tulsi Gabbard prior to the war starting. I get the war plans themselves were extremely stupid and likely would’ve given us the same outcome, but she is like the Highest Placed Russian agent within our government and gives the president the intelligence memo every morning.
Not to worry. He doesn't read them anyway, unless they're less than a paragraph and 48 pt font.
No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. The enemy gets a vote. Gen. James Mattis
You mean Russia was looking to put a knife in our back the whole time? Say it ain’t so!!
Trump ain't working for the USA folks!
Oh get over it the Iran war was always going to happen, except now the nukes are not a factor5
Iran has a heinous theocracy (remember we have Christian Nationalists who want one too) but the war wasn’t planned well. I worry that Trump and Hegseth purged military leadership and the JAGs specifically so they have free rein. The danger may not be from Iran but from Trump wanting to prove he’s a great leader. Newt Gingrich already floated using nukes this weekend on the Sinai peninsula to blow a new channel for boats to get in. Hopefully Trump doesn’t see that
... else, influx of capital to Ukraine to expedite rebuilding of energy infrastructure in order to be able to build more drones would be awesome to see. The US is not looking like the good guys these days.
If Ukraine keeps hitting Russian oil infrastructure then perhaps Trump removing sanctions on Russian oil won't have much of an impact? Fingers crossed...
Amazing what one motivated group of people and 3-D printing can do!
Now this is an opportunity to correctly use the war powers act…
I remember you being pretty confident that USA would be capable of opening the Straight of Hormuz in such an event and Iran not being able to keep it closed. I guess that assessment didn't age well :)
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Actually the Ukrainian interceptor is called PISUN. The translation is; penis, because it looks like one. No you can't make this stuff up. Because it's real. So a lot of dicks are going to have to clean up the mess. That the dickhead in chief and his dicklets created. Ha ha USA..
Oh come on now, really..., Penis?
And Trump is removing the sanctions on Russia. Yes, our dear leader is a liar, a narcissistic child, a Russian Asset, and has created a gigantic ClusterF**k. Our Secretary of WAR is a rambling idiot. Americans and Iranians are dying. But he has committed us to this war. We are dealing with a death cult that has supported multiple terrorist groups for 45 years, is willing to martyr itself, slaughter its own citizens, and is developing a nuclear weapon. We can't afford to kick this can down the road again. Who will be providing the Boots on the ground?
“there are people in America, who would gladly walk over the corpses of half of the American public, if they knew they could get power over the other half. They Stoke hatred. It is what Hitler and Goering did. It is textbook. And if you think the next time it happens, you won’t recognize them because they have scary uniforms, you’re out of your damn mind.” Dr. Douglas Kelley Psychiatrist who interviewed 22 Nazi leaders for the Nuremberg trials
Are we expecting Chinese Shahed analogues to be appearing on the battlefield - eg the Garpiya-3 or the Sunflower-200?
No.
The Japanese aren't going anywhere... Enter Taiwan stage right...
Thank you PZ !
Looks like Ukraine does have cards, who would have thought ;)
I want to see Vance publicly thank Zelenskyy for every Stinger Ukraine provides when he comes out from under Mimah's dress.
Peter, I think some of your conclusions here rely on assumptions that aren’t confirmed yet. I haven’t seen credible reporting that Gulf states like Kuwait are actually out of interceptors, so that part seems speculative at this point. Trump’s statement about other countries helping in the Strait of Hormuz sounded more like a burden-sharing argument for maritime security patrols rather than a request for Japan or South Korea to join combat operations. I’m curious what sources you’re using for the interceptor claim. I enjoy your content a lot, but one thing I’ve noticed over time is that your analysis often leans toward worst-case scenarios and tends to flatten complex situations a bit. It would be interesting to hear more about the range of possible outcomes rather than just the extreme ones.
With Trump, the "worst case" is probably the most likely case.
Who'da thunk that there'd be a downside to pissing off all your old friends and allies, Donny Boy?
Peter, when will you update us on the impact of UFC 250 at the White House on global security and global energy supply.?
Glad to see a silver lining (gold lining?) for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Look at Ukraine going to be the biggest winner of this US/Isreal war in Iran.
Who would have thought?
I've seldom been so proud of Ukraine. I've seldom been so ashamed of the United States.
Just "Ukraine". No "The Ukraine". "The" denotes a territory and not a sovereign state. russia loves to popularise use of "The Ukraine" to remind themselves of Soviet times when Ukraine was a territory of the (very non-democratic) union.
Looking to Ukraine to provide security for two continents? The U S has not only abdicated, we took an assault rifle to our foot.
The passive-aggressive, gaslighting call for help in Hormuz would be amusing if the stakes weren’t so high. Hard to imagine many countries volunteering when the likely reward is another round of tariffs.
Great news for Ukraine!!
Ukraine is a better ally than the USA. GCC investment in Ukrainian defense would certainly be a game changer.
So… every move Russia makes, every breath Russia takes, Saudi’s watch youuuuuu
I shoulda gone with: “I dream of U krayayane, I dream interceptors in the desert sand…” That I think was the first time Sting collab’d with Arabs. Glad to see him doing it again.
Very enlightening.